I bought this smoker as a gift and it worked really great for the first year. The next spring we brought it out and it started spewing propane from the hose that connects to the burner. We got it to stop spewing and thought it was fine, but when we pulled the meat out, there was black unburned propane on the bottom of all of our meat. I emailed the manufacturer about their one year warrenty, but never got a response. So great for one year, then didn’t work the next.